Russian anti-drone team sets up a Yak-B 12.7mm minigun borrowed from a Hind helicopter gunship in a truck bed, forgetting about the concepts of torque and recoil.
People are often critical of Victoria Beckham but to see this outpouring of emotion here from her as England scores a goal shows her deep connection with both football and the team.
@MarkHubbard33 They have been "taking out all their infrastructure" for five months now and the regime is still there and, since there are no US troops in Tehran, will stay in power.
China will happily rebuild infrastructure with the $300,000,000,000 from the "Art of the Deal" genius.
@MarkHubbard33 1) There are 125,000 IRGC and 90,000 auxiliaries - so you might need to settle in for a while waiting for Trump to opportunistically pop them off one by one.
A fine Russian “kitchen joke” of today. I.e. not be used in public, only in the kitchen. In whisper.
A pro-Putin guy pulls into a gas station and asks:
- How much for gasoline?
The attendant answers:
- 200 rubles a liter.
- What do you mean, 200?! Yesterday it was 100!
- That’s right: 100 rubles is for the gasoline, and another 100 goes toward building a multipolar world.
The pro-Putin character sighs, but proudly hands over 200 rubles.
The attendant takes the money, hands back 100, and says:
- There’s no gasoline.
We have completely eliminated the very idea of Russia having a strategic rear.
For a long time, Russia believed it had a territorial advantage no one else possEssed – a deep rear where it could safely keep military production, military equipment, and everything its war depends on, believing no one could reach them.
We have reached them. Just yesterday, Ukrainian drones broke-through Russia’s defenses and struck a Russian oil-refinery in Siberia. This is not an exception. It is the new reality. There is no major oil-refinery left in Russia that has not been struck by Ukraine.
From a speech at the NATO Defense Industry Forum. (3/5)
Torpenhow Hill, England
When the Saxons arrived and asked the locals what that hill was called, the Welsh replied, “Pen,” which simply means hill in Welsh.
The Saxons, apparently not spotting they’d already been given the full answer, added their own word for hill: tor. So it became Torpen - literally Hill Hill.
A few centuries later, the Norse turned up and repeated the exercise, adding haugr, their word for hill. Now it was effectively Torpenhaugr - Hill Hill Hill.
Then the English arrived, looked at the whole thing, shrugged, and added “Hill” on the end for good measure.
Thus we ended up with Torpenhow Hill:
Hill Hill Hill Hill.
It’s comforting to know that for over a thousand years, successive generations have been independently deciding that the previous lot hadn’t made it quite clear enough that it was, in fact, a hill.
Language is magnificent.
Humans… less so.🤷🏻♂️🤣
@fundypost If you want something to be.... just disappointed about this evening Paul, I recommend the following NZ Skeptics submission.
https://t.co/naQCWpVaSI
Word of the Day: TASKNESIA (neologism) - pulling out your phone to do something specific then instantly getting distracted and forgetting why you had your phone in your hand.